Michelle Chang
PhD Candidate at Nanyang Business School (Nanyang Technological University) - Finance
I will be graduating in 2025/2026..
Email: chan0981@e.ntu.edu.sg
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellechangql/
Research Interests: Household Finance, Machine Learning, AI, Behavioural and Social Finance, Mutual Funds and Investments
Working Papers:
Artificial Intelligence and Macroeconomic Expectations - with Chua Yeow Hwee
Do Financial Advisors Influence Bequest Motives? (previously 'Navigating Bequests - The Strategic Role of Financial Advisors in Bequest Motives') - with Chua Yeow Hwee
FMA 2025 (scheduled), Asian Finance Association Conference 2025, ABFER 2025 (Poster), AFA 2025 (Poster), Singapore Rising Scholars Conference SMU 2025 , NTU Brownbag (Finance) 2025, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2024
Stock Exchange ESG Initiatives and Corporate Sustainability
NBS Research Day 2023 (PhD Poster)* , Southwestern Finance Association Meeting 2024*⁺ , Illinois International Accounting Symposium & NBS Accounting Conference 2024* (PhD Consortium)
*as presenter and ⁺ as discussant
Awards/ Grants:
SoFIE Financial Machine Learnnig Summer School 2025 @ Yale University
AFA Travel Grant 2025
International CUFE Doctoral Symposium 2025 (Young Envoys Scholarship Program)
NTU Research Scholarship 2021
Leadership Scholarship Award (SMU) 2018
Discussions:
"Gender and Racial Favoritism in Crowdfunding—Evidence from the Field, " Ha Diep-Nguyen, Michael Price and Jun Yang
Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2024 [Slides]
"Technology and happiness: the association between online budget planner and financial satisfaction," Thanh Dat Le, Nguyen Nguyen and Quynh Nguyen
SWFA 2024
Professional Activities:
FMA Meeting 2025 (Reviewer)
Southern Finance Association Meeting 2025 (Reviewer)
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability 2025 - HEC Paris (Reviewer)
Southwestern Finance Association Meeting 2025 (Reviewer)
Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (2023). Reproducibility in Management Science. Working Paper. Note: Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.
Teaching / Teaching Assisting Experience:
NTU, Part-Time Lecturer, Artificial Intelligence Literacy (Graduate College) , Current
NTU, Instructor, Corporate Finance and Strategy Lecture (4.66/5.00 evaluation) (October 2024)
NTU, Teaching Assistant, Master's of Science in Finance - Introduction to Alternative Investments (March 2024 - June 2024)
NTU, Teaching Assistant, Master's of Science in Finance - Derivatives & Structured Products (November 2023 - February 2024)
NTU, Teaching Assistant, Corporate Finance and Financial Management (August 2020 - March 2021)
Ascend Now (Ed-Tech Start-up) (2020 - 2021), Economics and Entrepreneurship Instructor
Education:
PhD Candidate, Nanyang Technological University (Nanyang Business School) - Finance - 2021 to Current
Executive Education, Yale University - 2019
Executive Education, University of St Gallen - 2019
Master's of Science in Wealth Management, Leadership Scholarship Award recipient- Singapore Management University - 2019
Bachelor of Business Management (Major in Finance) - Singapore Management University - 2012
Past Selected Work Experience:
Citibank - Global Consumer Group (Singapore)
UBS AG - Investment Specialist (Wealth Management) (Singapore)
Morgan Stanley - Summer Analyst (Singapore / Hong Kong)